Defeatist psychology on the Left

Half a century ago, a despairing left intellectual wrote: “The Millenium Has Been Cancelled.” Edward Hyams was reacting to the many total failures of socialism in theory and practice, as well as to the apparent endurance of some sort of liberal capitalism.[1] In a recent review of a far-leftist book — Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, […]

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